Two major epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana of India - Essay Example

The five sons who were heroes got assistance in the war by various gods, and Brahmins. Seer Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa was part of the gods that assisted the sons in the war. The one hundred sons of Dhartarashtras had a demonic birth.1 Krishna Vasudeva is the supreme God Vishnu, which is the most dramatic part of the poem. He descended to earth in order to save the law, right, virtue and the good deeds of the people of the land. The Pandavas was the human instruments to Krishna Vasudeva to ensure the war occurs to the end.

The Dhartarashtra were mean to the Pandavas from the time they were young. They took advantage of Pandavas eldest person, Yudhishthira in a dice game. The Dhartarashtras won the game. The Pandavas was driven out of the land to the wilderness where he was to stay for twelve years as part of the bargain. The Pandavas kept their end of the bargain. The leader of the Dhartarashtras refused to give back the other half of the land to the Pandavas when their time in the wilderness had expired. A large war resulted and Pandavas won the battle that was eighteen days long.

It troubled many people who did not have the divine understanding. The Pandavas five sons of Draupadi were victims of the war as well as other major members of the Pandavas. It was a troubled win that Krishna Vasudeva deem necessary under the given circumstances. The aftermath of the war was brought horror and malaise among the people. The peoples’ reaction troubled Yudhishthira, but his sense of the war and the wrongfulness perceived went on to the end of the story. He had to perform a Horse Sacrifice because of the wrongfulness of the war to prevent a curse on the land.

Dhritarashtra, his wife, and the mother of Pandavas live in the forest in years that follow. They die in a forest fire in calmness. Krishna Vasudeva and his clan slaughter one another to death thirty-six years after the occurrence of the war. Krishna Vasudeva dissolves into the Supreme God